I recently saved up enough money to buy a new 480gb SSD drive and i was wondering whether or not i should move MCC to it, is it really worth doing? cause MCC already runs perfectly fine on the HDD, so my question is… do you really miss out on anything in MCC by not having it on an SSD?
Your load times will be slightly shorter, but only when playing solo. If your hard drive is working fine, I don’t think it’s worth getting an SSD.
But if you play other games as well, then it may be worth it depending on if they are primarily single player and how frequently you play them.
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> I recently saved up enough money to buy a new 480gb SSD drive and i was wondering whether or not i should move MCC to it, is it really worth doing? cause MCC already runs perfectly fine on the HDD, so my question is… do you really miss out on anything in MCC by not having it on an SSD?
Yes, do it if you can. An SSD will speed up your load times, quite significantly if you have a high-speed one. A standard SATA drive might have a speed of 70-100 mb/sec. Fast SATA SSD’s can get up to 550mb/sec. Some of the newer M.2 SSD’s can do 7000mb/sec. So this is absolutely worth it.
It depends on your setup. If you’re on console, especially on an Xbox One, I would recommend an SSD.
If you’re on PC, your boot drive should be an SSD. It’s 2021, you should not have windows running on an HDD
Just for halo, no. Even thouh i had an sdd for my 1x, it made loading a bit faster yeah. It was waaaay more worth it in a game like Skyrim and Witcher 3 for example
every game in the mcc loads pretty quick with the exception of halo 2.
Multiplayer seems to be less affected but local games load almost instantly with an SSD. When playing campaign or even with my friend over online co-op, it is very difficult for me to read the hints or anything of the load screen because it loads too fast. I got myself a WD black, which currently has the highest read and write speeds (1 week old info, so might already be the second fastest). But on multiplayer, I do have enough time to look at the map of the load screen to at least read everything once.
This was also repeated with another game, PUBG. My friend has an immensely better graphics card, we have similar CPU and RAM, but I have the fastest SSD. I was in-game about 3-5 seconds before him. But beyond that, his performance is smoother.
Everything beyond the invisible pre-loading of the surroundings is dependent on my graphics card because it is the weakest link in the chain at the moment.
I would say the SSD is arguably negligible for MCC. Multiplayer matches still take longer to load because not everyone is using an SSD. The only benefit is that solo campaign and forge matches will load instantaneously.
SSD is always worth it
When I made the jump from XB1X to the Series X I did notice that load times were a bit shorter. No doubt thanks to the ssd, but we’re only talking about a few seconds here. Anywhere from 3-10 seconds depending on the game being loaded. Probably not worth it given how much space the file size takes up for the whole collection. I recommend doing the same thing I plan on doing. Go ahead and keep it on your ssd and enjoy those faster load times, but as soon as you need more space on the ssd just move to hdd. The faster times aren’t worth the space.
I had the MCC on my SSD for a good year or so before I wanted to clear out space on it for other stuff that loads slower, like GTA V. So I moved it to my HDD, and honestly? It’s barely noticeable. It might add, like, a couple more seconds to loading, but pmuch every map is so small in terms of modern storage that you’re really not taking an L by moving the collection to your HDD. So, my conclusion? You might as well keep it on your HDD, because storage is much cheaper on those and the difference is negligible, whereas with -Yoink- like open world games it’s pretty vital to have them on an SSD.
But, I’m not a storage expert. You might have better results on SSD than HDD than I did, as your SSD might be better than mine, or your HDD might be worse than mine. Just try both out and if the timing doesn’t give you as much of an improvement as you’d expected, just pop it back onto the HDD and save that precious solid state storage for other stuff.